Canadian illustrator Oscar Cahen had a brief but impactful career in the 1940’s and 50’s before passing away at the young age of 40. Canadian art historian Jaleen Grove has been exploring his work and was involved in putting together a show of his work at Illustration House in New York. I was joined by Jaleen, Roger Reed from the Illustration House and Oscar’s son, Michael Cahen to discuss Oscar’s work. The illustration House is showing his work for the rest of October. I highly recommend checking it out. Really amazing work.
Over the last 6 years of doing the Inkstuds radioshow, I have had the opportunity to interview some amazing creators. At this point, to hazard a guess, I have interviewed nearly 400 different cartoonists. It has been a blast.
Last fall, the show took a step in a whole different direction, with Conundrum Books publishing the first book collection of interviews conducted on the show.
Now it’s time for a new component to the Inkstuds. I was approached by my friend Daniel this past summer asking if I had ever thought of doing video interviews, which is something that I had thought about, but just don’t have the technical know how to follow through. Well, that’s where Daniel’s skill come in handy.
Our first interview was with Brandon Graham. Since he was my neighbor at the time, it seemed like an obvious good choice of someone to test it out on.
This is very much a collaborative project between me and Daniel Giantomaso. He brings some great talents to the table in regards to really putting it together nicely. I could not do this without him.
I will still be doing the regular audio interviews, but the video format allows me to get in-depth in a different way. I have some great interviews scheduled with some fantastic cartoonists in the Pacific Northwest.
Hey there folks, no new Studs this week. Sorry about that, but there are well over 300 interviews to take a listen to if you would like. My personal life has taken over for a couple of weeks and not allowed me to put anytime into the show recently. Over the summer I have been working a ridiculous amount and thankfully that is coming to an end. Starting next week, I will be working a job I really wanted that will allow me a lot more flexibility and time to put into the show. There is a new Inkstuds related project that I am really excited about that I will be unveiling in the next couple of weeks.
The other thing taking away from my time is that I am in the midst of moving into a new home. If you remember my shelfpr0n on Robot 6, you know it’s gonna be more than a little work. Special thanks to Brandon and Colin who have both signed up to help me this weekend.
All the while moving, I am also scheduled to be interviewed at Word on the Street in Vancouver at 11am in Author’s Tent. My good friend and colleague Sean Cranbury from Books on the Radio will be interviewing me. I expect good things. Sean does something similar to me, but he deals with book authors, while I yak with cartoonists.
Here is an interview I did with Dylan Williams back in April of 2008. Dylan passed away this past weekend. I really liked Dylan and the work that he published and promoted with Sparkplug comics. He did a really great strip about Alex Toth for Austin English’s Windy Corner. I highly suggest reading that. It feel especially poignant right now.
Craig Thompson and I sat down for an extended conversation about his new book Habibi, as well as a larger discussion of comics in general. We also touch on his previous works including Blankets, Good-bye Chunky Rice and Carnet De Voyage
I really enjoyed doing this interview with Igort. The conversation was full of many great insights with a lot of material covered. Like many of his contemporaries, only a handful of his work is available in English. I first got into his work with the drawn and quarterly collection, 5 is the Perfect Number. More recently, you can find him in the Ignatz series, Baobab. Igort is also the editor of the Ignatz line of comics. His latest work, is a series of books on the Ukraine and Russia. You can read what has been translated so far, here.
Here is an interview I did with Chip Kidd over the Christmas holidays and seemed to have escaped my mind. In this interview, we discuss the book on Captain Marvel memorabilia that he had put together, Shazam!
Vera Brosgol joined me for a chat about her debut book, Anya’s Ghost. It’s a great piece of work and shows a lot of promise for a creators first long form work.
